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Rotate head 90deg and either mount the work to suit or end milling becomes side milling if that's OK. .

If they dont have a centre hole and flat topped TPUN, if they have a chipbreaker ridge TPMR.

Sizes should be all metric

Edited By Dave Halford on 18/02/2023 21:00:53

Don't think so, are the gibs loose or is the saddle is moving

Thing is how many 'other people' actually ride the bikes to find out the shiney new valve is only that and not much of a valve at all. You may be the only one in a sea of trailer queens.

I confess that I have no idea how valve springs on the outside of the engine survive with all the dust and rain that can get thrown at them.

Might there be a small weep hole now blocked by the new guide? Or are you supposed to oil up everything steam engine style before you start it.

Les,

The fault is a failed display startup self test both with and without the scales being fitted.

He's trying to match a new display to his existing scales

However the converter also has exposed screw terminals at mains voltage that need to be protected from fingers, swarf, fluid and mice etc

Didn't the cap sit on the moveable contact plate and the lug on the dizzy body? Otherwise you have a lot more dismantling before you can get at the bob weights

Nigel it's available on the BBC web site to watch.

There was an Excel list on the web many years ago

These sets can be aimed more at repairing damaged threads than creating new ones. The metric set with the same 'create and repair' use description are all finishing taps.

Just don't get the sets sold at markets, you get drills that can't cut mild steel etc

Edited By Dave Halford on 14/02/2023 18:55:17

Both Emco Unimat and Hobbymat do Milling attachments for lathes that were sold in Europe.

Ebay is full of billet Damascus steel.

What about running the leds 24/7?

Harrys vintage link implies 1970's so maybe 50 year old plastic, I know I was in better nick back then than now.

You could weld 2 singles together to get the right screw spacing, but you will probably still get get gaps at the four corners.

No castings, just steel slabs welded together, the column is fully welded on the edges as if the knee. Shame the head has no visible dovetail mounting. Strictly speaking shop built with heavy duty work help on the night shift. Nudge nudge.

Not sure what the telephone connector box is for, but I wouldn't be putting mains through it.

It will tram as the head nods.

The lack of a quill doesn't seem to detract from a lot of the Centec's loose in the world. If you look the head might be on a short dovetail with 4 socket screws on the left side, the equally it might be flat clamp.

The crosslide travel needs to be confirmed. if you can't travel a cutter over the full width of the bed without moving the head that's a little more serious than a missing quill.

Don't pay too much

It's an early mk1 version that needs a bloke hanging underneath it to do the actual spying.

Well it is Brighton & Hove where 95% of yuppie twits live and return the only Green Party MP in the country. Why would they want a dirty, oily, smelly steam engine?

Try the mig welding forum

Hi Martin,

Your 20kg pack will be EN3, machines well with Aluminium ##GT inserts which are very sharp.

En1A machines much better with hss, the down side being an increased tendency to rust.

Round BMS is only round-ish though it is rounder than Black.

I cheat and use ground round steel for shafting of any length.

Rapid Metals are modeller friendly especially if you call in when you can check out the off cuts bin. They also due postal.